Video from The Long Beach Prop. 8 Protest March

The Prop. 8 Protest in Long Beach on November 7th began and ended at Redondo and Broadway. There were three parts of the march that were scheduled out for picking up more protestors who were coming to meet up and join the march. The third and last leg was the pickup point at Broadway and Alamitos which was where many news vans were parked and waiting. Police had the streets blocked off and my contact on the inside said they were not scheduled to march past their, rather speakers were meant to give a message. The marchers continued on however, and the video footage below shows the marchers as they pass up the police barricades by taking the sidewalks. That was the strategy at each street they encountered, and they marched through many streets in Long Beach and circled back to Redondo and Broadway where it was eventually broken up. For more on the fight against Prop. 8 visit InvalidateProp8.org.

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